Nefertem:
He was typically depicted as an attractive young man with a
headdress consisting of the lotus flower symbol crowned with
plumes. On occasion, he was shown wrapped as a mummy and
sometimes as a lion-headed sun god. He was worshiped in the
shape of a lotus flower. He had a close connection with the
sun-god and was sometimes seen as one with him. He is described
as the “the lotus flower before the nose of Re” or the “great
lotus flower appearing from the ancient ocean.” He is also
described as a youthful child of the sun. In Memphis he was
much-admired as part of a divine triad with Ptah and Sakhmet who
were thought to be his parents. It was fairly clear that Ptah
was his father although Sakhmet was a bit in question. There
were differing opinions on this subject. In addition, he was
also known as the god of healing and beautification.

Neith:
She was worshipped in the Memphite area during the Old
Kingdom as the protector of the kings. Her cult dated back
to the predynastic times. She was a goddess of hunting and
war and is shown holding bows and arrows and wearing the
crown of Lower Egypt. Her main following was at Sais but
eventually extended through the Delta and through the Faiyum
regions. She was most popular during the Twenty-sixth
Dynasty since most of the kings of that time came from the
Sais region. Later on, her status was elevated to a creator
goddess in Esna. In some eras she is shown nursing a
crocodile because it was believed that Sobek, the crocodile
god was her son.

Nekhbet, Nekhebet:
This goddess appeared in the shape of a vulture or as a
woman wearing a vulture headdress and was worshiped at el-Kab
(Nekheb). Some reliefs show a vulture soaring above the head
of the king and this is thought to be her. She usually wore
the White Crown which was a representation of Upper Egypt
and that part of the country. She had close association with
the goddess Uto which was her counterpart in Lower Egypt
along with the goddesses Mut and Tefnut. Nekhbet was shown
protecting and suckling the royal child. Sometimes she was
considered to be the wife of the Nile god and at other times
she was addressed as a “daughter of the sun.” Her name stood
for “She of Nekheb.”

Nephthys:
This goddess was the daughter of Geb and Nut and the sister
of the deities Osiris, Seth, and Isis. She was also the wife
of the god Seth. Along with Isis, she was a protector, a
mourner, and a reviver of the dead. Her name is the Greek
name for the ancient Egyptian goddess Hebt-Hut. Most places
knew her as the “Lady of the Castle.” She was depicted with
a hieroglyph of her name above her head and sometimes with
wings on her arms. Sometimes she is also depicted with the
hieroglyph on her head which means “palace.” As one of the
four canopic goddesses she performed an important function.
The mythological story goes on to say that she tricked
Osiris, her brother, into siring her son Anubis. Eventually,
Isis ended up with caring for the child. When Osiris was
killed, she and Isis restored him back to life. She was
thought to have great magical powers.

Nun:
He, along with Naunet, were the first of ancient gods in the
Ogdoad of Hermopolis. They were depicted with frogs’ heads.
He is very seldom shown in pictorial form but is believed to
represent the ancient watery abyss where the god arose to
power. This god was thought to inhabit watery dark places
such as deep wells and caverns.

Nut:
She was a goddess of the sky and was depicted as a naked
woman with her body arching over the earth and with her feet
and fingertips touching the ground. She is shown in many
tombs and temples. Heavenly bodies are portrayed as going
through the body of this goddess – the sun in particular.
The reliefs show that she ate the stars each morning and
then gave birth to them in the evening. She was the wife of
Geb and is said to have given birth to Osiris, Horus (the

old), Seth, Isis,
and Nephthys. She is shown in several ways. Sometimes she is
shown as a woman with a vase on her head and in others she is a
cow that Re mounts when he appears at the moment of creation.
During the mortuary rituals she takes on another role and
protects the deceased. In spite of all the roles that she
portrayed she was never given a temple of her own.